By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PITTSBURGH — Still suffering from a post-holiday drag? After the fun of Christmas and New Year’s, it’s completely understandable if you’re having a hard time snapping back into a routine. Related Articles Gretchen’s table: Cauliflower ‘steaks’ are tender on the inside and crispy on the outside Recipe: This Super Bowl…
The rules of online visibility have changed. For decades, digital commerce strategy rested on a relatively stable bargain: brands optimized for ranking and bids, Google surfaced links and ads and consumers clicked through to evaluate options. That model is being rewritten with a new gatekeeper standing between brands and customers. Artificial intelligence has become an…
The rapid rise of A.I. is reshaping global infrastructure demands, pushing data centers from around the world to scale at unprecedented speed to support increasingly compute-intensive workloads. What was once a steady expansion has become a sprint, driven by generative A.I., large language models and real-time inference applications that strain existing power, cooling and connectivity…
Jeff Bezos has found his next climate-focused philanthropy target: nuclear power. The billionaire’s Bezos Earth Fund, which aims to distribute $10 billion to fight climate change by the end of the decade, is granting $3.5 million to a new initiative to streamline nuclear reactor construction across the country. The funds will support the Nuclear Scaling…
By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Like a lot of shoppers, I look for bargains when it comes to choosing which fruits and vegetables to cook each week. Related Articles Recipe: This Super Bowl snack is scrumptious and easy to prepare The secret to perfect tortiglioni with peppers and eggplant from a 1929 Italian cookbook Gretchen’s…
Job seekers often have to jump through hoops throughout the recruitment process. At Anduril, they’ll have to fly through courses—drone courses, to be exact. The defense tech company is offering engineers the opportunity to secure a job interview and compete for a cash prize of $500,000 in the AI Grand Prix, a new racing competition…
Microsoft this week (Jan. 26) unveiled its latest in-house A.I. chip, Maia 200, calling it “the most efficient inference system” the company has ever built. Microsoft claims the chip outperforms rival Big Tech processors such as Amazon’s Trainium 3 and Google’s TPU v7 on key benchmarks, while delivering 30 percent better performance per dollar than…
With Super Bowl Sunday approaching, I’m on the lookout for a nosh that is scrumptious and easy to prepare. White cheddar cheese topped with wine-soaked cherries and herbs is the perfect answer. The dried cherries need to soak in a mixture of wine, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, herbs de Provence and salt for 2 to…
Self-driving startup Waabi has spent the past five years becoming a dominant force in the world of autonomous trucking. Now, armed with $1 billion in new funding, it’s gearing up to take on a new challenge: the robotaxi market. The Toronto-based venture raised $750 million in an oversubscribed Series C round co-led by Khosla Ventures…
At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, artificial intelligence was no longer framed as an emerging technology. It was treated as infrastructure. Across panels, private dinners and side conversations, the debate had clearly shifted: the question is not whether A.I. will transform economies and institutions, but who can operationalize it at scale under tightening…
